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Show ASSERTS TONSILS HAVE USE St Louis Physician Makes a Protest Against the Too Free Use of the Knife. Doctor Ewing, a St. Louis physician, has raised a volco of protest against tho surgical propensity for tho uso of tho knife on tho tonsils. For a long time It was the vermiform appendix which was only In tho way, but lately, owing perhaps to a growing Incredulity Incredu-lity In tho public mind, surgery has turne'd moro to tho tonsil as tho superfluous super-fluous thing which is cajpabla of doing a great deal of harm and absolutely lncapablo of doing any good. Doctor Ewlng insists that tho tonsils mako a nesting placo for tho phagocytes, phago-cytes, that class of good microbes which get Into tho blood to fight great battles thero with tho bud microbes which infest our systems. Tlio tonsils, ton-sils, says Doctor Ewing, nro recruiting recruit-ing stntlons at which tho phagocyto armies ar-mies aro enlisted and from which thoy march away to fight for our lives. It wo remove tho tonsils out of tho rising generation tho rising generation may bo left without phagocytes to fight their battles for them, and will fall victims to tho armies of ovil microbes which will then attack them unresisted. |